Asaf Levy

The dead sea with old friends

Whole-genome landscapes of 1,364 breast cancers - Nature Whole-genome and transcriptome analysis of 1,364 cases of breast cancer from South Korea broadens our understanding of breast cancer biology and reveals genomic features that connect tumour ...

Sequencing >1000 breast cancer tissues!!

This has not been done since...
probably last month's Nature issue

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can you engineer a microbe that eats PIs who steal choclates from the students room?

Fantastic and exciting work of Lianet and Dekel from our department on plastic eating bacteria!!

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Marathon #18.
This time in Eilat mountains.

When I grow up I promise to beocme the guy who is the 1st to fill out a doodle form with 200 scheduling options
(and not the last one, who selects from 3 consensus options)

Me to the students in the seminar course:
divide a multi-panel figures to several simple slides (a paper and a talk are not the same), use only large fonts also for people in the back (axes included), clear titles.

Me in conferences: I wish I could recruit professors to attend my undergrad seminar

Congrats @ostermanilya.bsky.social !

Bacteria sense virus-induced genome degradation via methylated mononucleotides Phages often degrade the genome of their bacterial host to individual nucleotides and use these nucleotides to build their own genome. In this study, we describe a bacterial defense system that direct...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@soreklab.bsky.social Sorek lab does it again! Such a cool signal to specifically detect the event of genome degradation by a phage

Last run in Spain.
#PMS2025

What a fun meeting in Malaga!
#pms2025

Thanks for organizing Victor et al.!!!

@sheilaroitman.bsky.social from Detlef Weigel's lab @plantevolution.bsky.social presents a cool and innovative talk on the uncharacterized members of the plant microbiome: phages!!
So many bacterial 16S studies but very few people study the plant phagome
#PMS2025

@plantevolution.bsky.social

Loved your talk Akos!

Elisa Korenblum, The root microbiome of wild grass populations from arid to Mediterranean regions as a Reservoir for Drought-Adapted Bacteria

#TreesOfInterest TOI

#PMS2025

Thanks Akos.
It would be great if other labs will follow up on this to decipher why plant microbiota are depleted from mobile genetic elements and defense aystem.
Do plants protect the microbes from MGEs?

Tomorrow we might catch serious runner @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social on time

@finkel-lab.bsky.social and I went on a beautiful morning run in hilly Antequera (south Spain).

Too much cerveza and jamon iberico made us heavy.
#plantmicrobesymposium

Looking forward to the plant microbiome symposium starting close to beautiful Malaga

Please DM if interested in joining our lab.

Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholarships supports postdoctoral researchers from universities in the US and Canada who wish to conduct research at Israeli universities.
Two years scholarships, $60,000 is provided by the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program+$3,000 annually by the Israeli supervisor.

Queen released Bohemian Rhapsody on this day, half a century ago.

R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).

Is there any biologist with 1M citations?

From the company's short website:

In short, we're a group of scientists generating
and validating molecular machines for human
and planetary health. At atomic scale. With
unprecedented control.

I will send you our official hat

Odyssey: reconstructing evolution through emergent consensus in the global proteome We present Odyssey, a family of multimodal protein language models for sequence and structure generation, protein editing and design. We scale Odyssey to more than 102 billion parameters, trained over...

We are interested in proteins, we do some AI, and I still could not understand what this paper is about based on the abstract.

I am starting the MARA movement:

Make Abstracts Readable Again

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Indeed. And no presidential candidate is even promising to fix it.

Some people tend to think that life nowadays is worse than in the past.
Objectively (statistically) speaking this is just wrong.

HDI measures education, life expectancy and purchasing power. In some countries (e.g. US) the improvement is mild, in others (e.g. China, India) it's dramatic.

העליתי הצעת מחקר לצ'אט וקיבלתי ביקורת עמיתים מדהימה. אבל שווה ניסוי. קשה לי להאמין שזה אומן על יותר דאטא מהצ'אט